1990’s bands - Canadian edition

iammine16

Static In Stereo

Fifthelement

Fifthelement said:

Streetheart

Whoops!  I guess that was more 80s (although they did reunite in ‘99)

Dead Man Walking

No mention of Glueleg? 

I'll also add Wide Mouth Mason.

Longueuil

rattzey said:

Lagwagon and Sons of freedom

Lagwagon are not Canadian

The Planet Smashers

wasa1971

The Pursuit of Happiness. I don’t think it was mentioned.

ST66483

Stinkin’ Rich / Buck65  and Hip Club Groove were also some fun back in the day.

1ThoughtKnown

wasa1971 said:

The Pursuit of Happiness. I don’t think it was mentioned.

“I’m an adult Now” is fantastic! 

A lot of cool bands mentioned, so many I’ve seen live. 
I’d like to add a few bands I haven’t seen on the thread that I liked in the 90s (forgive me if any are a repeat) 

SNFU
Dayglo Abortions
FurnaceFace
Wagbeard
The All-Woman Brothers Band
Sex With Nixon
Hothouse Flowers
Junkhouse
D.D.T.
Eric’s Trip
Voivod
Doughboys 
Captain Tractor 

1ThoughtKnown

rattzey said:

Lagwagon and Sons of freedom

Sons of Freedom are a forgotten band.  Still have “The Criminal” in heavy rotation on my playlists. 
I still say SOF and (especially) Slow were big influences on the Seattle music scene in the late 80s

maynardsux

heard Honeymoon Suite today on the radio, living in Canada and our mandatory "Canadian Content" and then thought of a few more (some more of a tail end 80's success):
Glass Tiger
Sass Jordan
Alannah Myles
Billy Talent
Lee Aaron

wasa1971

I forgot about National Velvet! 

chitty

Zod said:

chitty said:

I will get alot of flack for this, but Nickelback in 1998 and 1999/00 had two really good rock albums: Curb and The State

I would agree.  A friend of friend used to be the dummer of nickelback.  I saw a few shows in their early bar days, and playing a few bigger local shows during those first 2 albums.   I really did like them.  Then they got a little more polished.  I think they broke through internationally on the 3rd album.

Funny thing is I have an autographed cd copy of the original curb release on my shelf, as I got them all to sign it when we checked out a bar show when they opened for the barstool profits at UVIC.  Gets me zero bragging rights.. lol....

Definitely seeing them in small bars during the cycle of those two albums was a complete different experience from what they are now. I saw them probably 15 times in a 3 year span in small clubs with a thought they were going to be big, little did I know it would be with a lot of cheesy generic rock

Fifthelement

The thing that I miss, or maybe I’ve just aged out, was all the Canadian bands that would tour all the small and large cities across the whole damn country.  It seemed like every second week there was some band that you were hearing constantly on the radio, but they were playing small halls/clubs/arenas/student unions, etc.  This was particularly true in the 80s and early 90s.

Zod

Fifthelement said:

The thing that I miss, or maybe I’ve just aged out, was all the Canadian bands that would tour all the small and large cities across the whole damn country.  It seemed like every second week there was some band that you were hearing constantly on the radio, but they were playing small halls/clubs/arenas/student unions, etc.  This was particularly true in the 80s and early 90s.

I got a little taste of that this last few years with Headstones, I Mother Earth, and Tea Party doing to bar shows out here.   Pretty fund...

I remember a time in my last few years of high school.  We are at UBC for a volleyball tournament and walked into a Watchmen show.   That was pretty fund.

erebus

Just glanced through quickly...

the tea party
thirteen engines
kon kan
the box , more 80's ish

jhager79

ST66483 said:

Stinkin’ Rich / Buck65  and Hip Club Groove were also some fun back in the day.

Was definitely some good Canadian hip hop in the 90's. Corey from HCG was also on Trailer Park Boys. 

rummy

1ThoughtKnown said:

wasa1971 said:

The Pursuit of Happiness. I don’t think it was mentioned.

“I’m an adult Now” is fantastic! 

A lot of cool bands mentioned, so many I’ve seen live. 
I’d like to add a few bands I haven’t seen on the thread that I liked in the 90s (forgive me if any are a repeat) 

SNFU
Dayglo Abortions
FurnaceFace
Wagbeard
The All-Woman Brothers Band
Sex With Nixon
Hothouse Flowers
Junkhouse
D.D.T.
Eric’s Trip
Voivod
Doughboys 
Captain Tractor 

FurnaceFace! Awesome find! doughboys, too!

1ThoughtKnown

rummy said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

wasa1971 said:

The Pursuit of Happiness. I don’t think it was mentioned.

“I’m an adult Now” is fantastic! 

A lot of cool bands mentioned, so many I’ve seen live. 
I’d like to add a few bands I haven’t seen on the thread that I liked in the 90s (forgive me if any are a repeat) 

SNFU
Dayglo Abortions
FurnaceFace
Wagbeard
The All-Woman Brothers Band
Sex With Nixon
Hothouse Flowers
Junkhouse
D.D.T.
Eric’s Trip
Voivod
Doughboys 
Captain Tractor 

FurnaceFace! Awesome find! doughboys, too!

FurnaceFace were a good live act from Ottawa!  “Just Buy It” was the album that did pretty well if I remember. Some MuchMusic airplay etc.
Saw them at the Rev in Edmonton in probably ‘94.  I think Pansy Division opened and then Irish band Therapy? played (they were awesome).
Then out walks FurnaceFace in prom dresses lol. Was a fun show in a small club.